I am always surprised when, every so often, I get a request to do a guest post. I am a small fish in the blog pond, but I am happy to open the blog to anyone who has something to say or something to promote.
This guest post is contributed by Alexis Bonari, who regularly writes on the topic of online degrees. The site, by the way, has an interesting infographic called Life After College: The Frightening Facts of a Postgraduate Outlook.
(I have not edited the content in any way, nor do I necessarily endorse anything said.)
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According to published reports Afghanistan may be the next booming mining town. The US reports that they have discovered approximately 1 trillion dollars worth of various precious metals and minerals. That’s $1,000,000,000,000 for those of you not in the know. In other words; one thousand billion dollars or one million, million dollars! Pretty darn impressive however you say, or write it. This writer recently tried to get a comment about the extraordinary find from the Energizer Bunny, a person with direct ties to inside information, but I was unable to hear the bunny’s answer to my question over the lithium battery powered drums he was clanging together at light speed with excitement.
A WAY OUT
This is exciting news for the people of Afghanistan. They can now get out of the Heroin Business for good. No more backsliding just to make a few million bucks. The importance for the rest of us is that among the stores of minerals are large reserves of Lithium. Lithium is used to make the long life batteries we all know and love and that are used to power up our most popular devices such as cell phones, laptops and everything else. It is said the newly discovered lithium reserves are even larger than those in Bolivia where most light metals and lithium come from currently.
DID WE KNOW?
Was this known before the war? I think all of you out there that call these wars oil wars, were way off. These are mineral wars. And now it is crystal clear that bedsides Osama Bin Laden, there's gold in them their hills! Among the other precious metals and minerals found were rich veins of iron, copper, cobalt and gold. In 10 years Afghanistan could very well be a world powerhouse in mining. The Japanese have already jumped into the game and are offering President Karzai lots of financial and technical help. The rest of the world powers are also starting to come out of the wood work.
BREAKING NEWS
Afghanistan's mining minister Waheedullah Shahrani announced Thursday June 17th 2010 that mineral deposits in his country could be worth up to three trillion dollars, 3,000,000,000,000. This tripling a US estimate which was announced earlier in the week. OK, so now can we get the hell out of there and bring our soldiers home?
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